As the developers of Open Journal Systems, Open Conference Systems, Open Harvester Systems, and Open Monograph Press, the PKP team are experts in helping journal managers and conference organizers make the most of their online publishing projects. PKP Publishing Services offers support for:

As a customer of PKP Publishing Services, you will not only receive direct, personalized support from the PKP Development Team, but will be contributing to the ongoing development of the PKP applications. All funds raised by PKP Publishing Services go directly toward enhancing our free, open source software. For more information, please contact us.

1. Search the forum. You can do this from the Advanced Search Page or from our Google Custom Search, which will search the entire PKP site. If you are encountering an error, we especially recommend searching the forum for said error.

2. Check the FAQ to see if your question or error has already been resolved.

3. Post a question, but please, only after trying the above two solutions. If it's a workflow or usability question you should probably post to the OJS Editorial Support and Discussion subforum; if you have a development question, try the OJS Development subforum.

Under Home>User>Journal Manager, I intend to add a new role called "Advisory Board" in addition to the existing roles, such as "authers", "layout editors" and "reviewers". I also want to change the name of "subscription managers" to "production managers". I am wondering what documents are involved and should be made changes. I tried make change to the templates/managers/people/enrollment.tpl files and the locale/en_US/locale.xml files. I believe I miss something here, because when I click each of them and just got all the users as the result, but the fact is that i did not even assign each of them to any user!

Therefore, what documents or functions I should also get to? I truly appreciate your help.

To change the nomenclature "Subscription Manager" to "Production Manager", simply to a search and replace through your locale files (which are listed in http://pkp.sfu.ca/files/docs/translatin ... tingManual). You will also have to run dbscripts/xml/data/email_templates.xml if you make any changes to your email templates.

Adding a new role to OJS is definitely not a trivial process. What are you trying to do, exactly? Are you sure you can't just use the Masthead pages to manage your Editorial/Advisory Board?

Thanks for answer, James. My supervisor wish to have that kind of role, but after taking a deeper look at that role, I found it unnecessary to create that role. Instead, that role spans a number of functions of existing roles. Therefore, I would add the exisiting role(s) to the users who was originally designed to be categorized to the new role. ANyways, thank again James. Well, I may need to create a role in OJS one day

I would suggest possibly checking whether enrolling your guest editor temporarily as an unassigned Section Editor, and then assigning all items for that issue to him, would work. If you see any way that this would not be optimal, please do let us know.

I'd like to know also if its possible to add a customize role like "Accounting Role" where all subscriptions and payment settings will fall on their turf. Because we don't want to give to the accounting guys the role of the Journal Manager, which can tweak the settings of the journal sites..